Podcasts about explara

Santosh is the co-founder & CEO of Explara.com - India's leading experiences marketplace. An operator turned founder, turned mentor - he founded Explara with a shoe-string budget, and now the company serves millions of customers around the globe. Currently, he leads customer success & growth for Thrivly. In this episode of The Startup Operator, we talk to Santosh about his journey from being an operator to a coach, and what startup founders should be mindful of to create a profitable venture. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Santosh Panda failed twice before starting up with Explara. He started up Explara remotely from London in moonlight mode and bootstrapped it with his earnings till it was sustainable. Explara is a DIY event management platform for professional events that has inverted the SaaS revenue curve by being India First and World Next. With a down to earth attitude and unconventional hiring style, Santosh has built Explara quietly into successful at scale business.

What’s a founder’s mentality? Why is branding important? What happens when two successful organizations merge to function as one? Our guest Mr. Santosh Panda is the co-founder & CEO of Explara.com, one of India’s pioneer solution platforms for a 'do it yourself' events and ticketing marketplace. With over a decade of experience he has been involved in building products like the BBC iPlayer, eBay UK, etc. He has served over 50,000 events across 21 countries with Explara and get candid about : - The importance of obsessive mindsets for the customer - The patient process of mergers and acquisitions - The importance of humility - The irreplaceable employee …and lots more in this episode of Voice of Achievers. To learn more about him, visit www.explara.com Write in to us for feedback and guest suggestions at editor@voiceofachievers.com.

Santosh talked about the early days of Explara and how he with his team overcame various growth challenges to make Explara a leading SaaS platform for Events. He pinpointed the driving factors behind their 600% hypergrowth in 2012. He also shared his views on how early stage CEOs should decide what things to focus on to achieve a growth trajectory and many more valuable insights. If you're an early stage startup CEO, then you should listen to this episode. If you want to get connected with Santosh, reach out to me or connect with him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshpanda/

Is following someone on Twitter the new (and improved) handshake? It may be more informal, but it’s ridiculously informational. Twitter gives you the ability to learn about people’s interests, thoughts, and needs, and to leverage that information when reaching out. The tool makes it easy to create 1-to-1 connections, no matter your location, with other B2B companies, and to start growing your network. In this episode, Santosh Panda, Founder and CEO of Explara, explains how he would not have been a successful entrepreneur by now if it weren’t for Twitter.